Re: [PATCH] tty: the briq panel isn't a tty, make it use its own locking

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Josh Boyer <>

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:42:27 +1100> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:>>> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 13:39 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:>> > From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>>> >>> > The driver appears to be terminall broken, if nobody is maintaining it then>> > perhaps it should go into staging and the out-tray.>>>> Hrm, I don't think anybody maintains it but I do have a BriQ somewhere>> in storage, so I suppose I could pick it up, not that I need another>> crap driver to deal with right now though...>> In which case can we just stuff it into the tree, or take the briq driver> out into staging as this is the last blocker on tackling the tty_lock> entirely in the tty layer

I'd vote for out to staging. Don't rely on BenH to make sane decisions whenit comes to deprecating stuff nobody uses anymore. I mean... he's only justnow dropping iSeries support.